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West Branch Neversink River, New York
14.4 mapped river miles, draining 5 square miles, in the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin watershed. A USGS gauge stands in it, but its record is too short for a measured July mean, so what this page knows about its temperature is today's reading and NYSDEC's classification of the water itself.
50°F and colder is cold, through cold-transitional and cool, to warm above 70°F — the same four bands, breaking at 58, 64 and 70°F, that the app paints. Grey is water nobody has measured.
The nearest live reading
This gauge stands in the West Branch Neversink River. Its record is too short for a July mean, so the class below is NYSDEC's — but the reading is this water.
Thermal classification
NYSDEC's classification of this water, reach by reach. A class, not a temperature — no July mean, because none was measured here.
| Reach | Typed miles | Band | NYSDEC type |
|---|---|---|---|
| RM 14.4–0.0 | 14.6 | cold | — |
NYSDEC has classified 14.6 of the 14.8 miles NHD carries for this stream — 99% of it. Every typed reach carries the same class, cold. The untyped reaches are not warm water — they are water NYSDEC's inventory does not reach, and the mile ranges above span only the reaches it does.
Questions about this river
- West Branch Neversink River fishing report — what it reads right now
- How to get to the West Branch Neversink River — access, parking and public land
- West Branch Neversink River fishing regulations — season, size and gear by reach
NYSDEC classification
NYSDEC classifies this water as Class C — fishing. On those reaches DEC also designates it trout waters — which is the half of the classification that is about temperature, and the half this map paints by. The class is a designation of best usage under 6 NYCRR — what the water is protected for — and not the season and creel rules, which change yearly and live with the agency.
NYSDEC water quality classifications and standards →
Public land on the river
3 units of public or open-access land touch this river, 107,071 acres in total. Acreage is the whole unit, not the part beside the water.
| Unit | Owner | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Slide Mountain Wilderness | state conservation department | 50,723 |
| Sundown Wild Forest | state conservation department | 22,148 |
| Big Indian Wilderness | state conservation department | 34,200 |
Species
NYSDEC designates this as trout water — Trout waters — without naming the species. No fish survey or stocking record for this water is in the files this site reads.
Tributaries and watershed
6 named streams meet this one. Confluence miles are above the mouth; the longest twelve are listed.
- Fall Brook 7.8 mi · RM 2.7
- Flat Brook 4.8 mi · RM 3.9
- Biscuit Brook 3.8 mi · RM 7.4
- High Falls Brook 3.7 mi · RM 6.0
- Clear Creek 1.2 mi · RM 5.4
- Shelter Creek 0.8 mi · RM 6.0
West Branch Neversink River sits in HUC 8 02040104, the Middle Delaware Mongaup Brodhead basin, and drains 5 square miles, Strahler order 3 at the mouth. 61 NHD reaches carry the name for 14.8 miles in total — more than the 14.4 miles of drawn mainstem, because NHD counts side channels and braids as their own reaches.
Other water nearby
The closest 6 rivers on this site, straight-line from the middle of this one — not drive time.